daisy

See also: Daisy and DAISY

English

Bellis perennis

Alternative forms

• daisie, daysie

Etymology

From Middle English dayesye, from Old English dæġes ēage (“daisy”, literally “day's eye”) due to the flowers closing their blossoms during night. The rhyming slang comes from daisy roots for boots.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪ.zi/

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• Rhymes: -eɪzi

Noun

daisy (plural daisies)

1. A wild flowering plant Bellis perennis of the Asteraceae family, with a yellow head and white petals
2. Many other flowering plants of various species.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang) A boot or other footwear.

Derived terms

• daisy chain
• fresh as a daisy
• Michaelmas daisy ()
• push up daisies
• whoops-a-daisy, whoopsy-daisy, upsy-daisy

 

Translations

Bellis perennis

• Abkhaz: адәыкакаҷ (adʷəkʼakʼačʼ)
• Arabic: أُقْحُوَان (ʔuqḥuwān)
• Armenian: մարգարտածաղիկ (hy) (margartacaġik)
• Azerbaijani: qızçiçəyi
• Bulgarian: паричка f (parička), маргаритка f (margaritka)
• Burmese: ဒေစီ (my) (deci)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雛菊／雏菊 (co¹ guk¹), 雏菊 (co¹ guk¹)

  Mandarin: 雛菊／雏菊 (zh) (chújú), 雏菊 (zh) (chújú), 延命菊 (zh) (yánmìngjú)

• Cornish: egor Duw m
• Czech: sedmikráska chudobka f
• Danish: tusindfryd
• Dutch: madeliefje (nl) n
• Esperanto: lekanto (eo)
• Faroese: summardái m
• Finnish: kaunokainen (fi), tuhatkauno
• French: pâquerette (fr) f, marguerite (fr) f
• Galician: margarida (gl) f
• Georgian: ზიზილა (zizila)
• German: Gänseblümchen (de) n, Tausendschönchen n, Tagesauge n
• Greek: μαργαρίτα (el) f (margaríta)
• Hebrew: חִנָּנִית (he) (ẖinanít)
• Hindi: gule bahaar f
• Hungarian: százszorszép (hu)
• Icelandic: fagurfífill (is) m
• Ido: margriteto (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: nóinín (ga) m
• Italian: pratolina (it) f, margheritina (it) f
• Japanese: 雛菊 (ひなぎく, hinagiku), 延命菊 (えんめいぎく, enmeigiku)
• Khmer: ផ្កាឈូករ័ត្ន (pkaa cʰuuk roatta)
• Korean: 데이지 (ko) (deiji)
• Lao: ດອກກ້ານກ່ອງ (dǭk kān kǭng)
• Luxembourgish: Margréitchen f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tusenfryd (no) m

  Nynorsk: tusenfryd m

• Old English: dæġes ēage n
• Polish: stokrotka (pl) f
• Portuguese: margarida-comum f
• Romanian: bănuț (ro) m, părăluță (ro) f, bănuțel (ro) m
• Russian: маргари́тка (ru) f (margarítka)
• Scottish Gaelic: neòinean f
• Serbo-Croatian: tràtīnčica (sh) f, bȇla ráda f
• Slovak: sedmokráska (sk) f
• Spanish: margarita común f, chiribita f
• Swahili: kibibimlima
• Swedish: tusensköna (sv) c
• Tagalog: butonsilyo
• Turkish: papatya (tr), yoğurt çiçeği (tr)
• Vietnamese: hoa cúc, hoa cúc mâm xôi
• Yiddish: מאַרגאַריטקע f (margaritke)

commonly used term for related flowers

• Cornish: caja f
• Dutch: margriet (nl) m or f
• Finnish: päivänkakkara (fi) (oxeye daisy)
• French: marguerite (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Tagesauge n
• Italian: margherita (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: parani
• Norwegian: margaritt m
• Old English: dæġes ēage n
• Portuguese: margarida (pt) f
• Romanian: margaretă (ro) f
• Spanish: margarita (es) f
• Swahili: jaja (sw)
• Turkish: papatya (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Arabic: زهر اللؤلؤ (zahr al-lu’lú’) m
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} margerita f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Old English: ^{(please verify)} dæġes ēaġe n
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} margaretă (ro) f

References

• daisy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• I'd say, Sayid, diyas